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American Studies Ugly Freedoms
Unsettled Borders
Elisabeth R. Anker
Honorable Mention for The John Hope Franklin Prize Reckons with the complex legacy of freedom offered by liberal American democracy, identifying modes of “ugly freedom” that can lead to domination or provide a source of emancipatory potential. Anker shifts our perspective of freedom by contesting its idealized expressions and expanding the visions for what freedom can look like, who can exercise it, and how to build a world free from domination. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS January 2022 256pp 9781478017783 Paperback £22.99 now £16.09
The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land Felicity Amaya Schaeffer Honorable Mention for The John Hope Franklin Prize Examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the USMexico border from the perspective of Apache, Tohono O’odham, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land. Schaeffer reverses the logic of borders by turning to Indigenous sacredsciences, or ancestral land-based practices that are critical to reversing the ecological and social violence of surveillance, extraction, and occupation. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Dissident Acts August 2022 224pp 9781478017943 Paperback £22.99 now £16.09
Violent Utopia
Cooling the Tropics
Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa Jovan Scott Lewis Honorable Mention for The John Hope Franklin Prize Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre and its century-long legacy of dispossession, placing it in a larger historical and social context of widespread anti-Black racism and segregation in Tulsa and beyond. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2022 288pp 9781478018568 Paperback £22.99 now £16.09
Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart Honorable Mention for The Lora Romero First Book Prize By outlining how ice shaped Hawai’i’s food system in accordance with racial and environmental imaginaries, Hobart demonstrates that thermal technologies can—and must—be attended to in struggles for food sovereignty and political self-determination in Hawai’i and beyond. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Elements December 2022 264pp 9781478019190 Paperback £22.99 now £16.09
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